Chapter 856: Wooden Kites (1)
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The black gunpowder was extremely destructive and lethal. The Wu Kingdom’s army only needed to throw it into the pass with catapults. They could not even resist.
If they wanted to delay their siege plan, the first thing they had to do was destroy the black gunpowder.
The black gunpowder would explode when ignited. It was not difficult to destroy it, but the difficult part was to figure out where the Wu Kingdom’s army stored the black gunpowder.
“The Wu Kingdom’s army will definitely hide such an important weapon like black gunpowder and send heavy troops to guard it. Even if we know the exact location, we might not be able to approach it. With so much black gunpowder piled up, once the fuse is lit, will the people who go back alive?” Liu Jinbao felt that Song Jinghuan must be crazy.
Song Jinghuan didn’t answer him and continued, “The confidence of the Wu Kingdom’s army is due to the black gunpowder. Without black gunpowder, they can only use ordinary methods to attack the city. Although we don’t have as many troops as them, we can still hold on for a month if we just defend the city.”
It was true that they could make black gunpowder again, but that would definitely take a lot of time. They could still achieve her goal.
There was no fear on her face when she said this. Instead, there was a faint excitement.
Liu Jinbao didn’t close his mouth until a long time later. “Are you going to do this yourself?”
Song Jinghuan grinned at him and jumped off the wall. “It’s time to eat.”
It was the end of May now. If they held on until July, her Big Brother and
Sister-in-law should arrive by then.
After half a month of traveling, Shen Yijia and the others finally arrived at the periphery of the Three Gorges.
Song Jingchen put away the map and said, “Let’s rest before entering the mountain.”
In the past half a month, they had not heard any news about Nanling Pass.
Since there was no news, at least it meant that the city had yet to be broken through. Otherwise, such a huge matter would definitely be spread from the vendors of Great Xia and the Xuanyuan Kingdom.
For example, the news that Lin’an City had been occupied by the Wu Kingdom’s army had spread throughout the Xuanyuan Kingdom after half a month.
“You Yi and I will get something to eat,” Thirty Thousand said.
MO Yuan accompanied Ji Luo to Fengzhou, and Thirty Thousand and You Yi were in charge of the food.
Song Jingchen nodded without objecting.
“Hubby, how long will it take to cross this mountain range?” Shen Yijia took off her bag from the horse’s back and poured out a small pile of strangely shaped wooden pieces.
The wooden block was polished and carved by Song Jingchen and Shen Yijia during their break in the past half a month.
Although he had participated, Song Jingchen still didn’t know what these things were for. He thought for a moment and said, “About ten days.”
This was a conservative estimate. After all, no one had ever walked this path.
According to his previous plan, they could have arrived here earlier. They didn’t expect it to rain heavily for four days in a row, so they had no choice but to stop to avoid the rain.
The road after the rain was difficult to traverse, so it took a lot of time.
“Oh.” Shen Yijia blinked and focused on piecing the wooden blocks together.
Only then did Song Jingchen realize that the originally inconspicuous wooden blocks were in the same shape as paper kites. However, this one was wooden, and there were two gears at the bottom.
Initially, Song Jingchen only helped polish it because he didn’t want her to work too hard. Now, he was a little interested.
“What’s this?” he asked.
Shen Yijia picked up the wooden kite and checked it. After confirming that it was fine, she smiled mysteriously. “If we can fly over, won’t we save a lot of time?”
“Fly?” Song Jingchen was stunned. “With this?”
He admitted that he had thought that this girl could fly when he suspected that she was a demon, but ever since he knew the truth, he no longer had this unrealistic thought.
Seeing that he did not believe her, Shen Yijia picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground and tied it under the wooden kite with a cloth.
Then, she pulled the mechanism on the axle, and the two wooden wings quickly flapped. After sliding a distance on the ground, the wooden kite steadily flew out with the stones.
“Look, it’s flying.” Shen Yijia jumped up in joy.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, the wooden kite, who had flown to the treetop, fell straight down and instantly shattered into pieces.
The smile on Shen Yijia’s face froze. “Could you spare me some dignity? If you want to fall, at least fly further away before falling.”
Song Jingchen was speechless.
Thirty Thousand and You Yi, who had returned from hunting, swallowed their saliva.. The Young Madam couldn’t be thinking of using this to fly, right?
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